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MOTIVE OF COW SCRATCHING HEAD
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Bull or Cow scratching- its Head with its Hoof.
A. somewhat parallel design is that in which the bovine animal raises Bull
its hind-leg in such a way as to scratch his head with his hoof. An example -"^'j
of this—with the addition of a calf below'—on with hoof.
a reddish agate lentoid with rosy veins is
given in Fig. 527.T It will be seen that the atti-
tude bears a certain analogy to that of the hound
scratching itself, which in turn fits on to the type
of the wounded calf trying to tear out the arrow
with his hind-leg. It corresponds in fact with a
recurring device of Minoan artists, and it is
therefore a highly suggestive circumstance that
like the Cow and Calf motive, it recurs on a
series of early Greek coin-types.
Good examples are to be seen on some Parallel
, r--i -i • r-r- ./t-. survival
late sixth-century silver pieces 01 Eretna (rig. on Coin-
52S) - and of its colony Dikaia on the Thermaic lyPe-
Gulf.3
Unlike the case of the Cow and Calf,
where there had been a more or less continuous
tradition under a religious sanction, we have in
both these genre motives illustrated by the coin
types—after an interval of nearly a millennium
—an actual reproduction of a Minoan design
long fallen out of use. This revival seems best
NosE2ot L^Sta t0 be explained by the direct copying of Minoan
Coin of Eretria. bead-seals.
Fig. 527. Cow scratching
Back of Head : Calf below.
Bull with its Head turned against its Side on Seal Impressions
from Entrance of ' Royal Tomb' at Isopata.
Such an actual revival seems to be in the same way indicated by some
closely related types, of which the coinage of Gortyna supplies good
"lustrations, where the animal turns its head abruptly against its flank or
' From the de Clercq Collection, ii, PI. V, Figs. 2 and 4.
97, and p. 37. Tt is interesting as having a Imhoof-Blumer, GrkchischeMtinzen, PI. I,
been found in the neighbourhood of Antioch. 9 and p. 7, from the Greenwell Collection.
' Prom the B.M. Collection • Cat, PI. XXIII, Now in the British Museum.
56i
Bull or Cow scratching- its Head with its Hoof.
A. somewhat parallel design is that in which the bovine animal raises Bull
its hind-leg in such a way as to scratch his head with his hoof. An example -"^'j
of this—with the addition of a calf below'—on with hoof.
a reddish agate lentoid with rosy veins is
given in Fig. 527.T It will be seen that the atti-
tude bears a certain analogy to that of the hound
scratching itself, which in turn fits on to the type
of the wounded calf trying to tear out the arrow
with his hind-leg. It corresponds in fact with a
recurring device of Minoan artists, and it is
therefore a highly suggestive circumstance that
like the Cow and Calf motive, it recurs on a
series of early Greek coin-types.
Good examples are to be seen on some Parallel
, r--i -i • r-r- ./t-. survival
late sixth-century silver pieces 01 Eretna (rig. on Coin-
52S) - and of its colony Dikaia on the Thermaic lyPe-
Gulf.3
Unlike the case of the Cow and Calf,
where there had been a more or less continuous
tradition under a religious sanction, we have in
both these genre motives illustrated by the coin
types—after an interval of nearly a millennium
—an actual reproduction of a Minoan design
long fallen out of use. This revival seems best
NosE2ot L^Sta t0 be explained by the direct copying of Minoan
Coin of Eretria. bead-seals.
Fig. 527. Cow scratching
Back of Head : Calf below.
Bull with its Head turned against its Side on Seal Impressions
from Entrance of ' Royal Tomb' at Isopata.
Such an actual revival seems to be in the same way indicated by some
closely related types, of which the coinage of Gortyna supplies good
"lustrations, where the animal turns its head abruptly against its flank or
' From the de Clercq Collection, ii, PI. V, Figs. 2 and 4.
97, and p. 37. Tt is interesting as having a Imhoof-Blumer, GrkchischeMtinzen, PI. I,
been found in the neighbourhood of Antioch. 9 and p. 7, from the Greenwell Collection.
' Prom the B.M. Collection • Cat, PI. XXIII, Now in the British Museum.